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Ghana Culture Page



The color they wear is an essential element of every outfit, but girls and women mostly wear wrap skirts
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Ghana's food

They eat soup or stew most of the time


Recipe: Kontomire Stew


Method
Ingredients
Cut meat into pieces, wash and season with a bit of salt, garlic and ginger. Place in a cooking pot a put it on the fire, bring to the boil and cook till tender. Grind pepper and tomatoes and slice the onions. Pick, wash and chop the kontomire or spinach leaves.
Heat oil in a saucepan. Fry onions and pepper for 2 minutes, add dried ground shrimps and tomatoes. Cook for another 10 minutes.
Add meat with the stock. Prepare and add fish, stir and allow to simmer for a few minutes. Add the agushi mix with water and kpakpo shito.
Add the chopped leaves when the agushi is cooked and simmer for about 5 minutes.
Serve hot with boiled plantain, yam, rice, coco yam, etc.
  • 2 bundles of coco yam leaves (kontomire)or spinach
  • 4 medium sized tomatoes
  • 2 large onions
  • 1lb meat or tripe, cooked
  • 8oz smoked fish
  • 8oz agushi
  • ¼pt palm oil
  • 2 dessertspn. dried ground shrimp
  • 1 clove garlic salt, pepper and ginger to taste
  • kpakpo shito




Ghana's arts

Many peoples of Ghana create beautiful pieces of art some examples are:
Kente cloth
brass castings
stamped Adinkra cloth used in funerals
stools carved of wood
and royal arts
  • But they dont just creat art like that they also use music as a form of art
    like playing the drums in ceromonies.
    This is a form of art because they use the pattern of the drums as a form of talking.
  • To see videos about this click this ==> http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart